Today marks 15 weeks!!!


My pregnancy seems to be going by so fast. 


 Baby is the size of an apple and is about 4 inches long, head to bottom. And weighs  about 2 1/2 ounces. Its kinda neat to be able to compare the size to something.
This morning I was adding a few things to my baby registry on-line. It is so much fun!! I found some adorable little washcloths and bath robes. It's funny how those kind of things can excite me. The tough part is knowing which brand and which style of bottles and bath tubs and car seats....the list goes on and on. But to know which one to get. I guess I'll have to talk to other moms and find out their favorites. Who knew certain bottles can give your baby gas and colic!! What is colic?? lol I have so much to learn. But I am SO ready for all of it. Its going to be nice to have a change of lifestyle again. Not cleaning houses so much, I'm super excited about that! I would love, love, love to move out of the trailer before the baby comes..Something with a little more space. My kitchen cupboards are already full to the max with dishes and pots and pans and whatnot.  But, if we are still here I'm sure I'll find a way to survive, and to be thankful for what I do have. 


So i tried laying out in the sun today...it was very difficult to find a comfortable position!! I can't lay flat on my back cause I have lower back pain if I do that. And so I tried laying on my stomach..that lasted for a little while but then there was too much pressure.I came to the conclusion that I need to buy a comfy chair:) 


This afternoon I'm meeting Katie at Larkins' for a dessert:) She is skipping out on cross country practice to meet me there...her idea:) I rather love it.
I've come to the conclusion that I need to start working out again! Its amazing how fast the jiggles come back, when you worked so hard to get rid of them! Not sure that I can tone up too much right now, but I'm sure gonna try and prevent any more from coming on!!  Funny how I talk about eating dessert and going to the gym in one paragraph. :)


Well, I should go and try to do something productive with my day, yesterday I cleaned 3 houses ( one was teeny tiny) but it wore me out!!! So I slept in until 9 this morning and I really haven't done much since then.


I'm cannot wait until Monday!!!! :) :) (i only mention that about twice a day)

Today has been one of those days....early this morning I was all motivated. I was going to wash my windows, inside and out. and clean my house from top  to  bottom...well, I got as far as cleaning the house. Which is pretty good I guess. I would have started on the windows too but turns out I didn't have a ladder available for me to use today. And I don't like starting something and finishing it another day. Also...I have a wretched toothache :( I am kinda stressin cause I'm afraid its going to cost A LOT to fix, and plus I know that I have more than one cavity, the others just aren't hurting me yet. Sigh. To have insurance. It would be a great, non- stressful thing. I know I need to trust God to provide, either financially, or through healing. But for some reason I'm having such a hard time with it. I'm afraid that if I pray for healing that God isn't going to heal them.And that would just be such a big dissapointment for me right now. Lord help me! 


Anyway...in other news...next Monday we find out if this little nugget is a boy or a girl. I'm so excited, I can't wait to take a look at him/her again. It's such an amazing experience! I felt it move again on Friday. :) I absolutely love it!! I can't wait until its kicks are stronger. I'm really debating buying a home doppler off of amazon..that way I can listen to the heartbeat any time that I want to. Not that I worry about it at all, it was just be a really cool thing. I think maybe I will.Dwayne thinks its kindof ridiculous to get one, but I'm pretty sure that once he hears the heartbeat he would think its cool.:) 
Last night I dreamt I had the baby...it was a girl:) The past few nights in my dreams, no matter how crazy they are, whether I'm married in my dream or not, I'm always pregnant. haha Its kinda funny. Must be its a very real thing to  me by now. 


This coming weekend is church camping...I'm trying to get pumped about going...it hasn't happend yet lol I'm sure it will be fun once we get there, it will be cooler in the evenings, and we'll have a fire and all...great fall things:)
Well, I'm gonna go crash for a little bit.
Have a great week all!

I got the urge to take belly pictures today, so I will share...it has gotten bigger since the last time I posted a picture :) I'm almost positive I felt the baby move the other night!! It was like two little pops right in a row, I think maybe it had made a whole body movement. Its so exciting!!

 14 weeks and counting!! :)

 the jeans are feeling a little snug!

 PS..I'm not really that pale yet, blaming it on the flash:)

 This cute little stinker!

 He's not big on pictures. It just kinda cracks me up how I'm very 'grinny' and he totally isn't!!

Time for another update :) 

This morning did not start out very super for me, I went to bed last night with a headache, and woke up this morning and it was even worse. I popped a tylenol, (not very helpful, but oh well) pulled my trusty ice pack out of the freezer and went back to bed...it helped for a few hours:)

For some reason, lately, Odie (my dog) has been SO IRRITATING!!! He whines and whines, and I can't even walk past the front door and he goes crazy thinking I'm going to go outside. I think maybe its all of these crazy hormones. I asked Dwayne the other day if Odie seems more annoying than usual, and he said "no, pretty sure its just you." Super. Ahh well, I'll get over it eventually.  I took the poor little guy to the vet this morning, he has these itchy little scabs all over, and it turns out he is allergic to flea bites. :( $78 in meds. Yay!

Anyway....enough about the annoying little bugger...The other day I sat down and read the introduction to this book,  

'Pure Joy' by Crystal Wade and Arthur Burk. I recommend it to any parent-to-be, or parent. It speaks a lot on nurturing your childs' spirit, and raising their capacity for Joy. " The soul has a huge potential for different kinds of joy. For one person its making music, for another it is scoring a touchdown. The spirit, however, has the greatest potential for joy. There are so many facets of our spirits' relationship with God that are designed to produce different flavors of joy in our spirit. And this treasure of spirit-based joy is usually the most over-looked, under-developed of all--to our loss."   This book has blessings written in it to pray over your child  to develop and nurture their spirit, and bless them with so many different facets of joy, such as joy in obedience to the Father.

Now, I can't say that I understand everything, but what I know is that I want the absolute best for my baby. I want my child to know God on such a deep personal level, at a much earlier age than I ever did. I'm excited to pray these blessings over my child, and see what God does in his/her life.

I've also borrowed a CD from my mom, called Bach at Bedtime. This kind of cracks even me up, I'm not a huge fan of classical music. But I'm so aware of the things that the baby hears and takes in. Whatever I hear on the radio/TV he/she hears as well. So I figured, why not some soothing, beautiful music. :) I plan to buy a copy of the CD myself and play it after the baby is born while it sleeps. Who knows, maybe it will inspire the little thing to be a musician. lol I also want to get a CD of songs of Blessings. I just need to find one.

The baby is now the size of a medium shrimp :) 

(that shrimp looks rather disgusting to me at the moment.)

I can't wait until I can feel it move!! Some days I sit or lay down and just concentrate on trying to feel it. I'm only at 13 weeks though, so I know that it is a long shot. This Baby excites me like nothing else!! (if you haven't noticed lol) Well, I'm going to go and take Odie for a walk..I'm feeling kind of bad that I get so annoyed with him.:) 

Tonight we are going to the high school football game, they are playing the Landrum Cardinals. Dwayne was telling me he saw signs out in Columbus and one read "Go POLK, De-feather those Cardinals" haha it cracked me up!! I got a mental image of this poor, plucked little birdie.lol (maybe I have a strange sense of humor) Anyhoo....I hope you all have a great week. God Bless!